Corporate Social

Responsibility By Bailey Ferguson

What is Corporate Social Responsibility?Corporate social responsibility, often

abbreviated "CSR," is a corporation's initiatives to assess and take responsibility for the company's effects on environmental and social well-being. The term generally applies to efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups.

CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the company, but instead promote positive social and environmental change.

What is sustainability?Rationalising the economic, ethical, and sustainability dimensions of corporate responsibility and sustainability in the context of stakeholder requirements. Stakeholders include investors, customers, employees, business partners, local communities, the environment and society.

Sephora StandsBreaks down into three social impact programs.

- Sephora Accelerate

- Classes for Confidence

- Sephora Stands Together

Sephora is looking to use their strengths to promote even greater good by supporting female entrepreneurs in beauty, the community, and their people.

Sephora Accelerate Helping female-founded start-ups design the future of beauty

Sephora Accelerate is dedicated to building a community of innovative female founders in beauty. The program begins with a one week boot camp where founders acquire the necessary skills to create a successful business. Together, they learn from beauty mentors and seasoned entrepreneurs, and prepare for a final demo day in the fall.

Classes for Confidence Sephora provides specialized beauty classes for women re-entering the workforce, their hope is to inspire confidence in 100,000 women through this program by 2020.

An Instructor will help you learn everything from skin care basics to the latest makeup trends.

Sephora Stands TogetherSephora believes that “we are a Sephora family, and we stand together in times of need”.

Through this focus effort, they support their employees affected by natural disasters or unexpected life-changing events with financial aids.

Pretty Pink Products

Sephora supports breast cancer awareness the month of October They offer all pink cosmetics such as mirrors, eyelash curlers, eye shadows and brushes, all which of the proceeds are donated to breast cancer research.

Why and How❖ Offer pro-bono services from your staff and offer your services for a

greater good.

❖ Race for a cure as a team with proceeds going to meaningful charity for a group.

❖ Institute a dollar-for-dollar match for every dollar donated by an employee to a charity of their choice.

❖ Volunteer as a group for a charity or nonprofit.

❖ Host a donation drive.

❖ Provide time off for employees to volunteer and serve outside of paid vacation time.

❖ Examine your company and Measure What Matters.

M.A.CWORKING TO ABOLISH ANIMAL TESTING

M.A.C recently partnered with the INSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES (IIVS), whose mission it is to expand the use and acceptance of non-animal testing methods worldwide. By funding IIVS’s International Outreach Program, which provides support to scientists and helps spread the acceptance of alternatives, we are working to make a difference and stop animal testing

UltaUlta Beauty Gives Back

That's why, in 2016, Ulta Beauty created the Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation (UBCF) to provide additional transformational opportunities to enhance the education and well-being of women and girls throughout our communities. In 2017, UBCF will award 20 regional grants in selected communities across our footprint.

Past campaignsA Gorgeous Way to Give

Cut-for-a-Cause

Golf Outing and Day of Beauty

Measure What Matters: Calculate Your Impact

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